Toyota built a handful of these things for racing, and while they supposedly made a good 600 horsepower, they really struggled on track in 1995 and 1996, not qualifying at one point, catching fire another. This one homologation special road car apparently disappeared not long after it was built, then showed up on a Japanese for sale site in 2015 as our friends at Road and Trackpointed out. “The holy grail has been found,” one MR2 forum put it when the road car emerged from hiding.

It’s now presumably in the hands of an extremely lucky private owner.

It’s one of the wildest cars Toyota ever had a hand in, a very interesting could have been. Seeing one on the street, as spotted by kaiAE86, must have been enough to stop your heart.